Yesterday I brought my car into you with the following severe problem...Around three months ago I was driving on College Ave in Appleton with my car seems to shut itself off in the middle of the road with no warning. By " shut itself off" I mean that the the gages on the dash all slowly went down to zero and the electronic displays such as temperature, direction the vehicle in going, mileage etc all disappeared, more importantly the accelerator stopped working and i was forced to put on my warning lights and try to get off the road without getting hit! Once off the road i placed the car in park and attempted to turn it on again...the car did turn on without further problems and appeared to have nothing wrong with it( no lights on dashboard indication a problem etc). I drove the car for 3 months or so without the problem happening again and honestly didn't think too much about it. Suddenly last Thursday the 30th of July I was driving on the HIGHWAY 41 home from green bay at 65-70 miles a hour in the second lane when the car did the exact same thing!!! MUCH SCARIER since i was going at a higher speed in the middle of the highway which is surrounded by construction! LUCKILY i was able to get into a kind of breakdown lane in between construction barrels turn the car off and restart it again without dying! I happened to be on the phone with my lovely father at the time who demanded i bring the car into you JEEP man DAN! I dropped the car off yesterday morning and explained the problem to you...you kept asking me if it stalled or shut off (like i know I already told you what it did now you tell me if that is stalling or shutting off!) and asked for similarities between the two situations... which there were none considering one was at 30 miles an hour on a back road at the beginning of a trip and and the other way highway speeds at the very end of a trip ! The only similarity is me being the driver and the car been a jeep 06 Laredo!! I left the car with you and agreed to pay the 100$ so that you could hook the car up to a machine that would locate the problem. Last night I called to see what you had found out and what did you tell me...NOTHING. Apparently the machine couldn't detect any codes from my car stating there had been a problem. You told me you even drove the car a great distance (20 miles) and nothing happened ( there's a shocker since the two incidences were 3 months apart to begin with!). You suggested we leave it overnight so you could drive it more today (friday) and we agreed but stated we needed to pic it up by 3pm at the latest. We went to pic the car up today and you once again said you couldn't find anything wrong with the car but if i could leave it you were going to call the hotline to see if they could suggest anything...HELLO I TOLD YOU I NEEDED IT BY 3pm... so i had to take the car pay the 100 and i got no answers as to what is going on. I have done a little internet research since then and have found these sites...
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/10/jeep_stalls.html
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/05/jeep_recall.html
but neither talk specifically about the 2006 jeep grand cherokee laredo... so i have filed a report with the NHTSA. They will be looking into it and calling me back.
Meanwhile I am driving a car that could stop working again at any moment and i have been lucky twice already. and Jeep man dan doesn't even seem to believe the problem exists but he " wants me to keep him informed if the problem persists" yeah no problem dan as long as i continue being lucky i will...arrggggg
J
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